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California is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state's most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group will now have new freedoms. But they are also asking why they've been excluded from the reform - and whether they'll be safe in new prisons. Keith Doolin still remembers the day in 2019 when workers came to dismantle one of the United States' most infamous death chambers.

KSA: Saudi brothers beheaded for murder

RIYADH: Two brothers sentenced to death for murdering a fellow Saudi were decapitated by the sword in the city of Jeddah on Monday, the interior ministry Riyadh, saudi arabia said.

Mohammed and Selim al-Madhiribi al-Shamali were convicted of hitting Saad al-Madhiribi on the head with a hammer and then stabbing him to death in a business dispute, it said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA.

Their beheadings took to 19 the total number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom so far this year, according to a tally based on official reports.

Under the AFP count, at least 76 people sentenced to death were beheaded in 2011, while rights group Amnesty International put the number of executions last year at 79.

The death penalty is handed down in Saudi Arabia, which applies strict sharia (Islamic) law, for a wide range of offences including rape, apostasy, armed robbery, homosexuality and drug trafficking as well as murder.

Source: The Times of India, AFP, April 9, 2012

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